Capitalist environmentalism
Nov. 10th, 2008 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI came across two links yesterday which I think work nicely together:
Atlas Sulked, about Ayn Rand following rich people who've decided to protest the new "socilaism" (hah!) of America by taking their vital, superior, money generating selves out of the system by becoming self sufficient hermits
and
Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn, on the way environmentalism has been commodified by commercial tv into an individual, consumerist act
I'm not sure I'm quite able to articulate the moral I draw from this. Maybe that "evironmentalism" isn't a homogenous thing: the same behaviours can be done for different motives (helping society or hurting it), and you can pursue the same goals in different ways (individual changes and spending lots of money, or large-scale projects like public transport and power plants, etc) Anyway, I thought they were interesting.
Am definitely not saying that all environmentalism is capitalist and/or bad :)
Atlas Sulked, about Ayn Rand following rich people who've decided to protest the new "socilaism" (hah!) of America by taking their vital, superior, money generating selves out of the system by becoming self sufficient hermits
and
Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn, on the way environmentalism has been commodified by commercial tv into an individual, consumerist act
I'm not sure I'm quite able to articulate the moral I draw from this. Maybe that "evironmentalism" isn't a homogenous thing: the same behaviours can be done for different motives (helping society or hurting it), and you can pursue the same goals in different ways (individual changes and spending lots of money, or large-scale projects like public transport and power plants, etc) Anyway, I thought they were interesting.
Am definitely not saying that all environmentalism is capitalist and/or bad :)
